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...France's right wing to strike back at Charles de Gaulle on the mainland. They were on the run in Algeria-the bastion from which they had defied the prewar Third Republic and toppled the Fourth. By last week De Gaulle had: CJ Scrapped the 100,000-man Algerian Home Guard, whose members manned most of the barricades in the recent insurrection...
...Abolished the "Fifth Bureau"-the shrilly nationalistic army propaganda section which had worked tirelessly to sabotage De Gaulle's Algerian policies...
...Algiers by ship. But last week, as police hauled him off to Algiers' Barberousse Prison to join 1,000 imprisoned Moslem rebels, he muttered to himself over and over again: "A De Sérigny in Barberousse! It is impossible! It is incomprehensible!" Time to Talk. Said one Algerian Moslem happily: "Whatever is bad for De Sérigny is good for us." De Gaulle's new assertion of authority over Algeria posed a problem to the leaders of Algeria's five-year-old F.L.N. rebellion. Millions of uncommitted Moslems might become less eager to support...
...Lease-Breaker. As his first major act of personal rule, De Gaulle summoned Minister of the Sahara Jacques Soustelle, 48, a Gaullist since the 1940 fall of France. Abruptly, with no attempt to soften the blow, De Gaulle told Soustelle that he was fired-"because your personal stand on Algerian questions is too different from my own." Bitterly, Soustelle replied: "You might have waited until June 18, 1960. That would have finished off a 20-year lease on my life...
Erin Once More. As well as anyone else, De Gaulle knew that his Fifth Republic will be finally judged by whether it can end the five-year-old Algerian revolt, which divides and embitters French politics. He ordered a sweeping roundup of right-wing extremists in both Algiers and Metropolitan France. In France itself three key men were jailed: Insurgent Leader Pierre Lagaillarde (see below), and two right-wing M.P.s who had flown off to Algeria and were arrested on their return: fiery Fascist Lawyer Jean-Baptiste Biaggi, and a tame Moslem, Mourad Kaouah, onetime Algerian soccer star...